This week on The Nouvs I’m very pleased to bring you a conversation with legendary San Francisco Drag and Performance artist VivvyAnne ForeverMore. Vivvy is not only one of my favorite performers, and one of the smartest people I know, she’s also one of my oldest friends.

I asked Vivvy to join me on the program because she producing the 7th installment of Work More, an annual celebration of queer history and drag lineage.

Vivvy and I have a great talk about her show, queer history, the impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race on the art of drag, and (to the surprise of absolutely no one) our shared nostalgia for mid 2000s San Francisco.

micasigourney.com/daughters

calmdownqueen.com

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Ted is the former program manager of Visual AIDS—an important hub of art and activism surrounding HIV—and he is currently studying one intersection of HIV and Christianity Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Ted and I talk about his studies at UTS, his activism, and (if i’m gonna be totally upfront with you) a lot about me. Brace yourselves.

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prettyqueer.com/author/ted/

hyperallergic.com/author/ted-kerr/

visualaids.org/search?keywords=ted+kerr

utsnyc.edu

Goddess Moon and I have great conversation ranging from off-label uses for electric fly swatters, issues of race, gender and inclusion within the leather community, the pressure to live up to the example set by her sash-mom—Shae Flanigan—and what it means to have a “leather heart”.

Below you'll find some links to things we discussed...

Onyx / onyxmen.com

Ms L.A. Leather / thefightmag.com/2016/01/crown-of-leather/

Goddess Moon / thefightmag.com/2016/02/moonrise-kingdom/

Shae Flanigan / soundcloud.com/brenden-shucart/episode-6-shae-flanigan

Polyamory / thefightmag.com/2015/11/when-three-is-not-a-crowd/

Today on the Novus I’m excited to be joined by the brilliant comedian and long-time men’s health advocate—Kenny Neal Shults.

I met Kenny several years ago at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, where he was one of the headliners at a queer comedy showcase being hosted by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

During his set Kenny pulled out a bottle of Truvada, and slayed the crowed while singing the praises of PrEP.

Afterwards, Micheal Weinstein, AHF’s famously anti-PrEP CEO, got up and stormed out.

It was one of the most impressive instances of speaking truth to power i’ve ever seen, and I’ve had a huge gay activist-y crush on Kenny ever since.

More recently, Kenny was part of the team that created the controversial “I Like to Party” PrEP PSA.

We talk a lot about messaging in HIV prevention, PrEP, and or course, the influence of the ever-looming AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

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twitter.com/CHS_Kenny

Today on the Novus I’m excited to be joined by the brilliant comedian and long-time men’s health advocate—Kenny Neal Shults.

I met Kenny several years ago at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, where he was one of the headliners at a queer comedy showcase being hosted by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

During his set Kenny pulled out a bottle of Truvada, and slayed the crowed while singing the praises of PrEP.

Afterwards, Micheal Weinstein, AHF’s famously anti-PrEP CEO, got up and stormed out.

It was one of the most impressive instances of speaking truth to power i’ve ever seen, and I’ve had a huge gay activist-y crush on Kenny ever since.

More recently, Kenny was part of the team that created the controversial “I Like to Party” PrEP PSA.

We talk a lot about messaging in HIV prevention, PrEP, and or course, the influence of the ever-looming AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

facebook.com/seniorgaycorrespondent

twitter.com/CHS_Kenny

Today on the Novus I’m excited to be joined by the brilliant comedian and long-time men’s health advocate—Kenny Neal Shults.

I met Kenny several years ago at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, where he was one of the headliners at a queer comedy showcase being hosted by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

During his set Kenny pulled out a bottle of Truvada, and slayed the crowed while singing the praises of PrEP.

Afterwards, Micheal Weinstein, AHF’s famously anti-PrEP CEO, got up and stormed out.

It was one of the most impressive instances of speaking truth to power i’ve ever seen, and I’ve had a huge gay activist-y crush on Kenny ever since.

More recently, Kenny was part of the team that created the controversial “I Like to Party” PrEP PSA.

We talk a lot about messaging in HIV prevention, PrEP, and or course, the influence of the ever-looming AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

facebook.com/seniorgaycorrespondent

twitter.com/CHS_Kenny

The legendary Big Dipper stops by the studio (my studio apartment, that is)and we talk about his recent move to Los angeles, the peculiar realities of celebrity, and the power that can be found in taking your clothes off in public.

For more Big Dipper info:

bigdipperjelly.com

twitter.com/BigDipperJelly

The legendary Big Dipper stops by the studio (my studio apartment, that is)and we talk about his recent move to Los angeles, the peculiar realities of celebrity, and the power that can be found in taking your clothes off in public.

For more Big Dipper info:

bigdipperjelly.com

twitter.com/BigDipperJelly

The legendary Big Dipper stops by the studio (my studio apartment, that is)and we talk about his recent move to Los angeles, the peculiar realities of celebrity, and the power that can be found in taking your clothes off in public.

For more Big Dipper info:

bigdipperjelly.com

twitter.com/BigDipperJelly

Today on the program i’m joined by artist, DJ, and performer - Nathan Rapport.

Nathan is here to talk about his adult coloring book, 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me,' which is to me a heartachingly beautiful meditation on the way in which gay boys throw ourselves into the maw of hedonism as a way of managing a fundamental loneliness.

Nathan and I were in the same “class” of queens back in San Francisco, and there is a way in which this book—much like Brontez Purnell’s 'Johnny Would You Love Me (If My Dick Were Bigger)'—feels both universal to gay guys of a certain generation, yet tied inexorably to a specific point of view that only seems to come with having lived in the Bay Area during that latter half of the 2000s.

You can find his book - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me - at his Etsy store under NathanRapportArt (etsy.com/listing/255988248/mature-queer-adult-coloring-book).

This episode's theme music is "Supernova" by Liz Phair (youtube.com/watch?v=tM60GAPIXTY).